Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cooper, William W. (Editor), Seiford, Lawrence M. (Editor), Zhu, Joe. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 71
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Econometrics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.; IT in Business.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Business and Management, general.
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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a relatively new ỚSdata-orientedỚ<U+00fd> approach for evaluating the performances of a set of entities called Decision- Making Units (DMUs) which convert multiple inputs into multiple outputs. DEA has been used in evaluating the performances of many diff...

Table of Contents:

• Data Envelopment Analysis
• Returns to Scale in DEA
• Sensitivity Analysis in DEA
• Incorporating Value Judgments in DEA
• Distance Functions
• Qualitative Data in Dea
• Congestion
• Malmquist Productivity Index
• Chance Constrained Dea
• Performance of the Bootstrap for Dea Estimators and Iterating the Principle
• Statistical Tests Based on Dea Efficiency Scores
• Performance Evaluation in Education
• Assessing Bank and Bank Branch Performance
• Engineering Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis
• Benchmarking in Sports
• Assessing the Selling Function in Retailing
• Health Care Applications
• Dea Software Tools and Technology.